Manager Supplier Engineering

Company Description
It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at
Intuitive
. As a global leader in
robotic-assisted surgery
and
minimally invasive care
, our technologies—like the
da Vinci surgical system
and
Ion
—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We're a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you're ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help
transform the future of healthcare
, you'll find your purpose here.

Job Description
Primary Function of Position
Manage a team Supplier Engineers working throughout the product development lifecycle for the SP Advanced Instruments, Stapler & Vessel Sealer products. Lead the team to execute strategic projects to optimize commodities, sub-commodities and individual suppliers; execute detailed projects with suppliers to implement changes and improvements affecting quality, cost, capacity, risk; manage supplier and sub-tier supply-chain risk; and support launch of new products. Ability to understand and solve complex issues associated with supplier's manufacturing process, quality and business inter-relationships.

Essential Job Duties
Lead a team of supplier engineers in strategic supplier selection, evaluation, development, and improvement to establish and maintain a high performing, long term sustainable production supply chain.

• Supplier Selection and Evaluation

• Lead a product family in developing and implementing a robust long-term supplier strategy.

• Select and evaluate suppliers that fit the supplier strategy and influence key stakeholders to utilize and maximize the use of the Production supply base.
• Lead the assessment of suppliers against key selection criteria for Preferred Suppliers.
• Develop suppliers in operations and quality to meet requirements of ISI and promote new suppliers to production status.
• Manage supplier relationships to effectively partner ISI and the supplier.

• Using the ASL and Global Commodity Matrix, manage quality and performance of the commodity supply base within ISI in partnership with Engineering and Purchasing.

• Process Development

• Take a lead role in manufacturing process selection

• Complete Production Part Qualification deliverables: pFMEA, Special Process Validations, FAI, and Process Capability Analysis
• Support